Ben, I really enjoyed this presentation at cf.Objective(); the whole Pecha Chuka BOF was fantastic, in fact. My wife had arrived to meet me for dinner, and since you were the last to go, she got to see it as well. Even though she's not a developer, she wanted me to let you know she thought it wa... read more »

It just "clicked" that notifications are probably what would be backed up in an outgoing spool. I switched from hosting my own email server to using Google Apps for domains a couple of years ago and never looked back. If I can save anyone else the grief of running an email server, it's my duty to ... read more »

"The web is not where you need to be my friend." LOL, I've actually been here a while and do quite well. It's an intranet app on a high-end network, so the bandwidth isn't a huge problem. AJAX is out of the question for accessibility reasons. I'm always open to suggestions though, if you have so... read more »

I'm right there with Ben that not being able to use cfflush is a deal-killer, personally. I have a project that requires a tree menu with over 100,000 hierarchical items, broken into three sections. Even compressed, the generated HTML is over 1.2 megs. The perceived performance increase that cff... read more »

Get off the crack, dude! Superfluous white space is soooo 1998! ;) Kidding aside, I prefer the compressed code, mostly because I don't have a NORAD-sized monitor; I can "take in" and mentally process more at a time. Less scrolling, all that stuff... In fact, when I work on existing code that ha... read more »